Rug over cheap tarp for sure. You'll want to tape the tarp to the walls of the yurt inside and outside (in case of rain - it does rain on the playa sometimes). With a cheap tarp you can cut it off the yurt at the end of the week and don't need to worry about not cutting the tarp. I get a new cheap tarp each year.

Carpet is pimping on the playa, but it's heavy on the way there, and even heavier on the way back. First two years I used a heavy duty 24x24 silver tarp, but driving stakes through it, dropping things on it, and so on decimated it after two years, so this year I'm using an el cheapo blue tarp. It keeps my spills and crap off the playa, and the playa out of my bed, and if I ruin it, no big deal. It also leaves you the option of putting carpet down over it where you want to cushyness.

melodiousdirge wrote:Carpet is pimping on the playa, but it's heavy on the way there, and even heavier on the way back. First two years I used a heavy duty 24x24 silver tarp, but driving stakes through it, dropping things on it, and so on decimated it after two years, so this year I'm using an el cheapo blue tarp. It keeps my spills and crap off the playa, and the playa out of my bed, and if I ruin it, no big deal. It also leaves you the option of putting carpet down over it where you want to cushyness.

this isn't very shaggy carpet, it's pretty flat indoor/outdoor weave. hard to describe but it doesn't have any fibers poking up like most carpets, everything is woven down if that makes sense. Hoping to shake some of the dust out before brining it back, but with any luck it'll absorb less playa than a normal carpet. Cute avatar btw

Semi related post - I have a heavy duty silver/black tarp that I'll be using for the floor of my monkey hut. I'm thinking that I'll place it black side down - silver side up. Good/bad decision? Silver side up might be blinding but black side up might be absorbing the heat. Open to suggestions

You know it's going to be a bad day when you jump out of bed and miss the floor.